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The War on Rats
In 1900, the first case of bubonic plague to ever be confirmed in North America was diagnosed in San Francisco. Scientists did not understand how the disease was transmitted but had long theorized that rats played a role.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
